I'm an atheist but I quite like Buddism...

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So I went to the meditation class. It had way more Buddhism in it than I expected based on the advertising. There was a very useful underlying message to it, and useful techniques, but by golly it was caked with a load of horse shit. Especially for the first lesson.

My mind was working like a bull crap detector, I just can help it. It seems to me like some people need little stories and pretend characters in order to practice the techniques or to see the point of it. The word spiritual was thrown around endlessly, and there was even a mention of "infinite future lives".

I did come away with useful ideas, and techniques, but honestly it was about 30 minutes of useful stuff and an hour of preaching nonsense. It's a shame, because that is enough to put me off going back.

I'll continue to learn about the meditation techniques from other sources and to practice it though. I do think there is a strong message of trying to achieve inner peace, and I think that is important.